The High Heeled Ruminations Of Melrose Plant

[Cali]

Next up for you is shorts with knee high stiletto boots. A look I like to wear a few times a summer.

[mlroseplant]

20 hours ago, Jkrenzer said:

Good look in both pair. Plenty of coolers, anything good to drink??

Like the black stilettos and shorts. I did stilettos and shorts on Saturday out and about. Love the free feeling.

Haha, the coolers. Those were drying out from the previous day's farmer's market. My wife sells egg rolls, so no, nothing in there to drink!

20 hours ago, Cali said:

Next up for you is shorts with knee high stiletto boots. A look I like to wear a few times a summer.

Methinks you are winding me up a little bit! I'm used to it. For one thing, if I were going to do that look, I'd have to find some boots that actually fit my chicken legs.

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As promised, here is the third picture from Sunday. It's an outfit I wore to record two weeks' worth of hymns with our church organist for the continuing online services. I was going to wear an entirely pink outfit, but decided that as this is a public broadcast, the pink pants were too tight for such a venue. Plus, they needed to be ironed, and I was running late, as usual. I decided on this outfit instead. Pretty boring, except for the shoes, which are cheap Chinese knockoffs of the same Steve Madden sandals you can see in my black shorts picture three posts before this one. I couldn't tell you a brand name because it has been long ago obliterated, and it probably doesn't matter anyway. They are ever-so-slightly pinkish, but it sure does not show up in this picture. So I guess we'll call them nude patent. These are the only shoes I own in this color, and I rather like the color. I know there are others on this forum who will violently disagree.

Despite their cheapness, I have become rather fond of them lately, and experienced no discomfort standing in them for a couple of hours while we recorded music. The last time I wore these sandals to do something similar, I did feel a certain degree of discomfort, so I think that my recent training binge has done some good, endurance-wise. The heels are just a tidge under 4 1/2", or about 110 mm, no platform. Despite their not being made of leather, they have stretched out some recently, and I may have to think about adding some padding in there to take up some room.

[HappyinHeels]

Yes I remember the warmth we had last Friday 9th of October when I officially recorded 84F/28C at my house/station. Spent the day doing yardwork in short shorts. I'm busy doing tasks/projects before we leave for South Carolina and from there to Arizona. This was an incredible growing year for just about everything. The dent (field) corn around our house reached 10.5 feet/ 3.2m in August and my first grape harvest was a success. I did enjoy wearing different sandals this year and posted a number of photos here. HinH

[mlroseplant]

What a difference two weeks have made! The temperature dropped precipitously about ten days ago, and it has stubbornly stayed there. It has also been extremely windy most of the past week, and it has either rained or even snowed on the majority of the days. As a result, I haven't done any walking lately. I've become such a wimp. However, on this morning, I made myself take a walk, even though it was 34º (1º C) and slightly breezy. And yes, I wore my True Religion mules, because why not? I have made it an aspiration to wear sandals as long as possible into the winter, though I probably won't wear them once we have continuous snow cover, which I hope is not for a little while. It's way too early in the season for it to be this cold every single day for this long at a clip. At any rate, I'm glad I made myself do it. It's good for me. Once I make it past that first couple of blocks, I always wonder why I hesitated in the first place. Being cold, up to a point, is just a state of mind.

I wore a very similar outfit (I think it was even the same shoes) to visit the grocery store the other day, when temperatures were in the 30s, and it was very windy. I was curious to see if there were any other sandal wearers in the store, as there had been a couple of weeks ago. On this occasion, there were a few gals bundled up in coats wearing sandals, but every one of them was wearing either Birkenstocks or those awful sports slides with socks. Every single one. I was the only bare toed person in the store, and I was the only high heeled person in the store, with the exception of a couple of low, block heeled boots, "low" meaning 2" or less. It's lonely at the top!

[jeremy1986]

Proud of you for holding things up for high heelers!!

[chesterx]

6 hours ago, mlroseplant said:

... or those awful sports slides with socks.

gross....

[JeffB]

Well done, mlroseplant! You look sharp!

[mlroseplant]

It's been an interesting week. I missed two days of work, thinking I had finally caught The Virus. But no, I didn't instead. My sickness and fever was evidently caused by something else, and I recovered in less than 24 hours. The second day I stayed home from work, I arranged to get a Covid test at a location near Costco, and it also happened to be my wife's day off from her work, so we decided to go shopping right after my test.

It has been unusually cold this fall in our area, so I decided to wear a sweater with my Mark & James platform wedge sandals. I'm not crazy about them, I'm not 100% sure why I bought them, they always seem to me to be borderline ridiculous when I'm looking at them on the shelf or holding them in my hand, but they are comfortable, and in the few photographs I have taken, they seem to look far less extreme on my feet than they do in isolation. Probably the reason I was ever attracted to them in the first place is because they are really, really tall--5 1/2", to be exact. They also have the thickest platforms of any shoes I own, at 1 1/2", for an effective 4" heel. I typically prefer a platform of 3/4" - 1", but lately I have been buying mostly single sole shoes. Tastes do change somewhat over the years.

The only reason for wearing wedges, in my humble opinion, is practicality. I do not like the massive look of wedges in general, and these have got some mass to them. What saves them for me is the fact that the heel is relatively narrow compared to many wedges. Another negative for me is the leather sole, which is totally ridiculous in the real world. I don't dare wear these if there's even a chance that it's going to be wet--they would be ruined in a New York Minute. The leather sole also makes them rather slippery on the polished floors of your typical supermarket. While I did not suffer any near misses, I walked with less confidence than I might have liked. Still, I had a delightful afternoon with my wife, which happens too seldom these days, and during our time together, I received word that my Covid test was negative.

This picture was taken just after sunset, which explains the somewhat strange lighting. It does not explain the wrinkles in my neck, which continue to rear their ugly selves if I am not super careful about which way I turn my head.

[jeremy1986]

Congrats on being negative ☺️

I like those wedges, and they go well with your jeans 

[Puffer]

It's certainly not like you to be negative, mlrpt, but your regular readers welcome this news.  🤧

[Cali]

But being a negative electrician might cause you some problem. Better get grounded.

[Puffer]

5 hours ago, Cali said:

But being a negative electrician might cause you some problem. Better get grounded.

I suspect that you and I will be grounded if we make any more shocking jokes, Cali!

[mlroseplant]

6 hours ago, Cali said:

But being a negative electrician might cause you some problem. Better get grounded.

Somebody else generally takes care of all the battery banks, so I'm never a negative electrician. I'm an A.C. only kind of guy! Still have to be grounded. Or as Puffer might say, "earthed."

1 hour ago, Puffer said:

I suspect that you and I will be grounded if we make any more shocking jokes, Cali!

Just as long as we refrain from certain topics, we'll be ok, I think. Making bad jokes is hopefully not one of the proscribed activities. Otherwise, we're in big trouble on this thread.

[at9]

If we'e in trouble we mustn't put up any resistance as we might all have to go ohm. I don't have the capacity for any more of this.

I'll get my coat.

[Shyheels]

One of my otk boot styles is actually called the Volta...

[mlroseplant]

5 hours ago, Shyheels said:

One of my otk boot styles is actually called the Volta...

As long as they’re not called Voltaire, as that brings to mind Candide, an’ we know all the ‘orrible fings wha’ ‘appened to ‘im, don’t we?

[at9]

Not sure I know watt you're on about......

[Cali]

You mean you don't drive a Volt to work?  I'm so disappointed!   

[mlroseplant]

15 hours ago, Cali said:

You mean you don't drive a Volt to work?  I'm so disappointed!   

No, but my sister has one, does that count? I drive an ancient Buick.

It occurs to me that this thread tends to be at its best when the subject is.  .  . basically nothing. Is that bad?

[Shyheels]

Seinfeld did all right making a TV show about nothing, so why not a thread?

[p1ng74]

2 hours ago, mlroseplant said:

No, but my sister has one, does that count? I drive an ancient Buick.

It occurs to me that this thread tends to be at its best when the subject is.  .  . basically nothing. Is that bad?

Those old Buicks are great, they don’t make them like they used to.  Bench seat in the front, bulletproof 3800 V6...

Perhaps the best threads are the threads about real life and finding friends, bound by a common interest in heels...

[mlroseplant]

I know we're not supposed to talk about politics on this site, and I won't address things directly, but it's really part of the story, and it involves high heels. I maintain contact on a popular social media platform with an elderly lady from my church (being as we never see each other in person in these days of physical distancing). Let's put it this way, we hold pretty much polar opposites on the political spectrum, with she being the conservative one.

We have traded barbs back and forth for the past several months, and a couple of days ago was no exception. She has been reading a book lately about people who change paradigms, and how they are often hated and ridiculed. I thought to myself, "Hmmm, I have a little experience with this," and so I took the opening to make a reply. She knows very well what I look like, and how I dress, so I shared with her my struggle to find my place in the world in terms of fashion and style, and how it's often not met with great enthusiasm. She immediately said, "Oh, don't worry about all those naysayers. Is that all they have to think about? Do what makes you happy. I can't wear high heels because of my artificial knees, so you wear them for me. But I do think they need to be thinner heels!!!"

I have no idea what the last part was about, as I do have quite a few stilettos, but perhaps she remembers me in chunkier heels. It has been a little while since we've seen each other in person. Nevertheless, affirmation sometimes comes from surprising places.

[Shyheels]

What a sweet story! So nice to hear in these troubled times 

[jeremy1986]

Great story indeed. You better show her your stilettos next time!

[Puffer]

It's the thought - but not necessarily the vote - that counts!

[Cali]

It's clear your heels have made an impression on her.

[Jkrenzer]

It's also clear, stilettos are the best. She likely used to wear heels too. She knows stilettos are actually more attractive and more comfortable. 

[HappyinHeels]

Well, I know mlroseplant and know there’s much more which unites us than divides us. He’s finding his place in the world as I have. The sky will not fall but our heels will grow tall! HinH

[mlroseplant]

Speaking of church people, I did not see my Republican friend on Sunday, but I did see the choir for the first time since March. Simply on account of age alone, about 90% of the choir members are in the high risk group for having serious complications from Covid-19, so we have not had any rehearsals or worship performances since March.

The choir director decided that this should not be, especially with the Advent season coming up, so he dreamed up this grand experiment, whereby we'd record the church organist playing the accompaniment to Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" some weeks before, send it out to everybody so they could practice, then gather on the last nice Sunday afternoon there will probably be until spring to attempt to sing this thing while observing pandemic precautions.

Would it work? I had my doubts, but it actually turned out better than you might think. We haven't yet put the video and the audio together yet, but here is a screen shot from the video. Can you find me?

[Jkrenzer]

Pink shirt and heels. Looks like good times. How did you all sound?